Alice goes to see a rerun of Jaws (a movie about a vicious shark) a few days before she takes off to Florida on spring break. On break, she finds that she is now too nervous to spend much time actually in the water, since she is convinced that anything she sees in the water is a shark. Her heightened sensitivity is due to

Priming

Explanation:

Priming is the effect in which a person is exposed towards a stimulus due to which he/she tends to responds to a future stimulus .This effect is caused due to implicit memory which manipulates the thought and ideas of a person later.

According to the question, Alice's situation is describing about priming effect in which she watched a shark-related movie which acted as stimulus and created a later response where she was afraid to spend too much time in water due to the altered thought of presence of shark.

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